This month the Ethereum Foundation released another (python-esque) language, Vyper, to update the security of smart contracts. So what are the skills, languages and software needed for smart contract reading and writing and when does it make sense to contract your writing to a third party?

The market got a shot of adrenaline on Monday on the rumors that the world’s biggest asset manager BlackRock was investigating trading cryptocurrencies and even establishing a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).

Transaction or “trade mining” is the latest form of rewards that some minor exchanges have been furnishing on their customers – a form of rebate where a customer earns (mines) the native token of the exchange purely by placing trades.

Burst has a lot to prove as a self-claimed contender for a globally adopted form of currency that talks an even bigger game than IOTA, Hashgraph and Nano with feeless transactions and “infinitely scalable” transactions per second.

Switzerland’s banking culture is synonymous with growing the wealth of the rich and hiding it away from the rest of the world to preserve it. Is this the right environment for global cryptocurrency policy-shaping to be taking place?

The highest court in India this week upheld the reserve bank’s decree prohibiting the country’s banks and other regulated lenders from dealing with or supporting any cryptocurrency-related services, including allowing customers to buy crypto with credit cards.

Fulfilling the promise of its whitepaper NANO was ranked the fastest of all cryptos for transaction times on Binance, but its abysmal price hasn’t reflected that performance – is this really the best transaction technology?